Just another datapoint for the "film is dead" theme...
I'm just a hacker when it comes to photography. I have a newish Canon DSLR which I think is awesome. But i have friends with serious serious camera collections and portfoios.
They're all disassembling their darkrooms and have gone completely digital. Film is dead there, they use Epson printers with the Ultra Chrome inks. While the ink isn't cheap it is better and more durable than current photographic methods.
They use 'spensoive things like the R2200 and up. Thy were blowing out the R800 here for $99 (Canadian, but they take US cash ar par these days around here so I guess cad/usd is a moot point) which isn't bad considering it comes with full ink which is $160.
I got one and am utterly blown away with the print quality even up at 8x10. I've never had prints this good from a lab or even a friends darkroom.
While hp and canon make nice stuff too it seems to be the Epson that everybody I know has gone for.
I downloaded it when I first read this article. Then I went away for an hour and used it oing my normal daily sstuff.
Holy shit it's fast. Some site, just plain html and lots of graphics are a bit faster then before.
Sites with lots of ms generated js are unbelievably faster. Opera's always impressed me with its speed but I've never seen a speed increase likt this. Kudos.
Morays are saltwater animals. The fish in the video isn't a moray eel, it's a freshwater tropical fish from a petshop, probably Symbranchius marmorotus. Both it and real morays are covered in this months issue of Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine.
I've had S. marmorotus before. They're much less agitated at feeding time than this one is. It mush have been really hungry. Uut you know the lemming story, it's just like Hollywoo... uh, youtube to distort things.
I met Michael Stonebreaker once. He has a very very fine mind and while wha he comes up with may look like whackjob conclusions, when you hear him explain them they, and he make perfect sense.
I suggest very strongly you talk to him directly and tell him what you told us. I promise that time will not be wasted.
"By using enough bits to ensure the 2nd half could be globally unique based on a really globally unique address like the ethernet MAC address, it eliminates many issues"
So you buy a used laptop, hook it up, then find out the previous owner liked to do something illegal with aforementined laptop because the cops at your door have a warrent with your V6 mac address.
I like my v4 addresses thank you. I persnionally have no reason to migratee. Curran can go fuck himself.
Message-Id: From: Paul A Vixie
I'll go on record as saying that the IPv6 DNS model is too complicated and is likely to decrease robustness for the first few years after it's rolled out.
But it's the standard, and god dammit if we're going to do that much work then I want to see the address allocation policies reflect this functionality.
"but it was pretty frightening to punch a file of all -1's - every possible hole punched on each card"
I used to do that just to make chaff which I then put in a cylinder and sent it down the pnuematic tubes at a place I worked at far far away long long ago.
Attention photocomp department: stop pissing off the computer operator.
It's probably best if I don't mention which newspaper this was.
As long as we're on the subject of text and background colors and that it seems to be Amiga week around here...
The Amiga could only display it's highest resolution interlaced. While the Amiga monitors used high persistance phosphours those of us that bought the vastly superios Sony KV1311CR ones instead had a worse time with interlace flicker than most given they did NTSC/TV and used shorter persistance phosphours.
I spent weeks if not months experimenting with various color combos before hitting on (drum roll) turquoise text on beige.
Yeah it sounds gay (not that there's anything wrong blah blah blah some of my best friends blah blah blah) but it really really cut down the the flicker amazingly well. Black and white would pretty much induce a seizure in minutes.
The key is you want minimal contrast difference between fore and background, but maximal color tonal difference.
"a teacher i had back in high school. she was highly light-sensitive. she couldn't look at a sheet of white paper without her prescription sunglasses on, let alone a computer screen. she was an excellent math teacher though."
Uh, you had Mrs. Watkins at LEHS as well? Wow.
Does it come in gray? I can barely read the text because of the color on a 1600p wide screen. I can read it fine on a white background.
Seems to me the Goog just needs to add a "select your color choices" to the saved preferences like they do with adsense. I'd use a darkish grey in a hearbeat if I could pick the forground text to be something readable on my crt.
Huh, no kidding. I have that sot of grief with Dlink. Two returned routers later it still screws up badly. Linksys is so "plug'n'play" for me it's just not funny. Hook it all up and all the computers were suddenly on the net both wired and wireless. I've never been so impresses with any peripheral in my life frankly.
"240Z did not stand up well to New England Winters. But the rest of the car was rock solid and the drivetrains were downright bullet proof"
The 510's were quite bulletproof but the 240Z engines tended to warp heads if they overheated once, which a lot of them did. Or rather the ones my friends owned did. The engine was an almostg direct copy of the one in a W108 Mercedes ('cept that had an iron head) and was otherwise pretty bulletproof.
As for the rust, well, um yeah. I still HAVE a 108 Mercedes and I've seen one 240Z in 5 years. Of COURSE it was orange with a black interior.
"Forgive me, but just about every PC with VGA or better had better graphics than the Amiga 1000"
In the day, that is when the Amiga first came out, your PC graphics choices were CGA or the then brand new EGA that gave you 16 colors.
IBM did have a PGC ("Professional graphics controller") that would do 640x480 by 24 but. It was $2500 and was two cards. I saw exactly one in the wild.
It was a few years before VGA came out. In the day the Amiga was the best bang for your graphics buck. Never mind the ability to sync to NTSC explained elsewhere here. And the first VGA's were no screaming hell. It took PC's a number of years to catch up.
To this day no computer can pull a window from background to foreground as fast at the Amiga could then.
Also, the guy that originally wrote gcc - Dave Conroy - also worked on the Alpha design. Dave's probbaly the best example of "computer genius" I've ever met.
He works at Microsoft now and does, um, well, err something usefull no doubt.
"Really? Have you actually programmed on a DEC system?"
Candy ass. Real man used to toggle in bootstrap code via bit switches to start up a PDP 11/20. A bit later a few of us were playing with a little thing called "Unix" on 11/45s. A funny languaga called "C" came out of this. I watched as my cubemate wrote a programme now called "gcc".
The elegece of the PDP instruction set made this easy if not easier. I shudder to think where we'd be today if it were not for those machines and I defy anybody to point to a more programmer friendly instruction set on any computer anywhere. I/O wasn't a big deal.
I think your problem may have been Pascal, not Dec hardware. Pascal deseved to die, the PDP's didn't. I can't say I was crazy about vaxen but they did to their job amazingly well. Didn't like VMS either, but Vax ran unix just fine.
pwning an eary unix system wasn't exacly a big deal. Keep in mind back then Unix was not a commercial product it was a research tool used internally in Bell Labs that some Universities had access to. I used it at Waterloo in the 76-77-78 timeframe. I split and went to LA and the advantage of having known C and Unix in the essentially BASIC orientied California computer industry of the day was a god$end.
"DEC Western Research Lab was a fantastic place with a great deal of innovation and freedom, and watching it shrivel and die was painful."
What he said. The firewall was born there as well as the www search engine.
About 8 or so years ago a few of us got calls from the white house - Ira Magazner, Clintons senior science advisor wanted to meet with all players in the domain name mess (to stab us in the back it turns out) and Brian Reid was one of those people. He was director of the NSL at DEC ("decwrl").
The day before I got an email saying he couldn't come and that Compaq had bought Dec and he wasn't sure he'd even have a job. I asked how this could even be possible and his reply stuck in my mind quite firmly: "Compaq didn't get enough money to buy Dec by being innovative".
The Amiga was actually the direct descendent of the Atari 400/800 - it was a 16 bit Motorola 68000 system with graphics a lot of PCs still don't have today. Jay Miner was the genius behind the hardware, Dale Luck and Jim McRazz did the bulk of the OS. I can't remember why it didn't stay in Atari but it didn't. They trie to go it alone for a while then Commodore picked them up.
If you look at comp.sys.amiga in the day complaints about hos Commodore was screwing it up were commonplace.
In fact there was one version of the bootstrap code that is you held down certain keys while it was booting it said something like "We built it, they fucked it up"
"Of course I could go ahead and run the recommended DJB configuring using rsync + openssh to propogate zone files. Then I would avoid the 10 vulnerabilities filed against BIND9 over it's seven year life span, but open myself to the 40 or so against OpenSSH, 30 or so against OpenSSL, and 10 or so against rsync"
Looks good on paper, but in reality how many bugs have *ss* caused in real world name service? Zero.
How many compromised nameservers have there been because of bugs in bind? Non-zero.
"Bind has been around since the dawn of Vint Cerf's IP"
Not quite, try about 10 years later.
Paul Vixie when at decwrl was funded by his boss, Brian Reid to take the Berkley B-Tree code and whip up a name daemon. This cost Dec quite a bit of money. This was in the mid to late 80s or so. Remember that the relevenat RFC for the domain name system only came out in 86.
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" I would like to see a p2p wifi network, but not neccessarily on portable phones first, but instead on home computers"
You're late. It was called UUCP.
Just another datapoint for the "film is dead" theme...
I'm just a hacker when it comes to photography. I have a newish Canon DSLR which I think is awesome. But i have friends with serious serious camera collections and portfoios.
They're all disassembling their darkrooms and have gone completely digital. Film is dead there, they use Epson printers with the Ultra Chrome inks. While the ink isn't cheap it is better and more durable than current photographic methods.
They use 'spensoive things like the R2200 and up. Thy were blowing out the R800 here for $99 (Canadian, but they take US cash ar par these days around here so I guess cad/usd is a moot point) which isn't bad considering it comes with full ink which is $160.
I got one and am utterly blown away with the print quality even up at 8x10. I've never had prints this good from a lab or even a friends darkroom.
While hp and canon make nice stuff too it seems to be the Epson that everybody I know has gone for.
Pretty numbers and everything but...
I downloaded it when I first read this article. Then I went away for an hour and used it oing my normal
daily sstuff.
Holy shit it's fast. Some site, just plain html and lots of graphics are a bit faster then before.
Sites with lots of ms generated js are unbelievably faster. Opera's always impressed me with its speed but I've never seen a speed increase likt this. Kudos.
Morays are saltwater animals. The fish in the video isn't a moray eel, it's a freshwater tropical fish from a petshop, probably Symbranchius marmorotus. Both it and real morays are covered in this months issue of Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine.
I've had S. marmorotus before. They're much less agitated at feeding time than this one is. It mush have been really hungry. Uut you know the lemming story, it's just like Hollywoo... uh, youtube to distort things.
I met Michael Stonebreaker once. He has a very very fine mind and while wha he comes up with may look like whackjob conclusions, when you hear him explain them they, and he make perfect sense.
I suggest very strongly you talk to him directly and tell him what you told us. I promise that time will not be wasted.
"Am I the only one who just copies the videos directly from the FireFox cache folder?"
No. Even my grandmother does this.
" By using enough bits to ensure the 2nd half could be globally unique based on a really globally unique address like the ethernet MAC address, it eliminates many issues "
So you buy a used laptop, hook it up, then find out the previous owner liked to do something illegal with aforementined laptop because the cops at your door have a warrent with your V6 mac address.
I like my v4 addresses thank you. I persnionally have no reason to migratee. Curran can go fuck himself.
Message-Id:
From: Paul A Vixie
I'll go on record as saying that the IPv6 DNS model is too complicated
and is likely to decrease robustness for the first few years after it's
rolled out.
But it's the standard, and god dammit if we're going to do that much
work then I want to see the address allocation policies reflect this
functionality.
Are you saying NASA's security is so bad a drug addled lunatic can break it?
"but it was pretty frightening to punch a file of all -1's - every possible hole punched on each card"
I used to do that just to make chaff which I then put in a cylinder and sent it down the pnuematic tubes at a place I worked at far far away long long ago.
Attention photocomp department: stop pissing off the computer operator.
It's probably best if I don't mention which newspaper this was.
" stop calling it MurdererFS"
AllegedMurdererFS ?
(is there a decent filesystem, that unlike NTFS, works with Win98+FreeBSD, too?)
As long as we're on the subject of text and background colors and that it seems to be Amiga week around here...
The Amiga could only display it's highest resolution interlaced. While the Amiga monitors used high persistance phosphours those of us that bought the vastly superios Sony KV1311CR ones instead had a worse time with interlace flicker than most given they did NTSC/TV and used shorter persistance phosphours.
I spent weeks if not months experimenting with various color combos before hitting on (drum roll) turquoise text on beige.
Yeah it sounds gay (not that there's anything wrong blah blah blah some of my best friends blah blah blah) but it really really
cut down the the flicker amazingly well. Black and white would pretty much induce a seizure in minutes.
The key is you want minimal contrast difference between fore and background, but maximal color tonal difference.
"a teacher i had back in high school. she was highly light-sensitive. she couldn't look at a sheet of white paper without her prescription sunglasses on, let alone a computer screen. she was an excellent math teacher though."
Uh, you had Mrs. Watkins at LEHS as well? Wow.
Does it come in gray? I can barely read the text because of the color on a 1600p wide screen. I can read it fine on a white background.
Seems to me the Goog just needs to add a "select your color choices" to the saved preferences like they do with adsense. I'd use a darkish grey in a hearbeat if I could pick the forground text to be something readable on my crt.
Huh, no kidding. I have that sot of grief with Dlink. Two returned routers later it still screws up badly. Linksys is so "plug'n'play" for me it's just not funny. Hook it all up and all the computers were suddenly on the net both wired and wireless. I've never been so impresses with any peripheral in my life frankly.
"240Z did not stand up well to New England Winters. But the rest of the car was rock solid and the drivetrains were downright bullet proof"
The 510's were quite bulletproof but the 240Z engines tended to warp heads if they overheated once, which a lot of them did. Or rather the ones my friends owned did. The engine was an almostg direct copy of the one in a W108 Mercedes ('cept that had an iron head) and was otherwise pretty bulletproof.
As for the rust, well, um yeah. I still HAVE a 108 Mercedes and I've seen one 240Z in 5 years. Of COURSE it was orange with a black interior.
Um, Nissas and Datsun were the same thing. They just changed the name from Datsun to Nissan.
Forgive me if I'm being really stupid here and missed something obvious that I shouldn't have. It's hot and I may have eaten some dodgy hamburger.
In fact if nobody ever hears from me again - it WAS the hamburrger.
"the kids here probably only remember the 1998 version"
Worst. Film. Ever. The friggin series was bad enough.
"Forgive me, but just about every PC with VGA or better had better graphics than the Amiga 1000"
In the day, that is when the Amiga first came out, your PC graphics choices were CGA or the then brand new EGA that gave you 16 colors.
IBM did have a PGC ("Professional graphics controller") that would do 640x480 by 24 but. It was $2500 and was two cards. I saw exactly one in the wild.
It was a few years before VGA came out. In the day the Amiga was the best bang for your graphics buck. Never mind the ability to sync to NTSC explained elsewhere here. And the first VGA's were no screaming hell. It took PC's a number of years to catch up.
To this day no computer can pull a window from background to foreground as fast at the Amiga could then.
Isn't the Itanium essentially a repackaged Alpha?
Also, the guy that originally wrote gcc - Dave Conroy - also worked on the Alpha design. Dave's probbaly the best example of "computer genius" I've ever met.
He works at Microsoft now and does, um, well, err something usefull no doubt.
"What the hell are they thinking?"
/. for the printer firendly version or summary. 3 or 4 pages is stupid enough but 19?
I believe it's something along the lines of "please click our ads please click our ads oh Christ please click our ads".
I've given on on TFA and check
"Chew on that gibberish for a while you heartless scun" - Hunter S. Thompson.
"Really? Have you actually programmed on a DEC system?"
Candy ass. Real man used to toggle in bootstrap code via bit switches to start up a PDP 11/20. A bit later a few of us were playing with a little thing called "Unix" on 11/45s. A funny languaga called "C" came out of this. I watched as my cubemate wrote a programme now called "gcc".
The elegece of the PDP instruction set made this easy if not easier. I shudder to think where we'd be today if it were not for those machines and I defy anybody to point to a more programmer friendly instruction set on any computer anywhere. I/O wasn't a big deal.
I think your problem may have been Pascal, not Dec hardware. Pascal deseved to die, the PDP's didn't. I can't say I was crazy about vaxen but they did to their job amazingly well. Didn't like VMS either, but Vax ran unix just fine.
pwning an eary unix system wasn't exacly a big deal. Keep in mind back then Unix was not a commercial product it was a research tool used internally in Bell Labs that some Universities had access to. I used it at Waterloo in the 76-77-78 timeframe. I split and went to LA and the advantage of having known C and Unix in the essentially BASIC orientied California computer industry of the day was a god$end.
"DEC Western Research Lab was a fantastic place with a great deal of innovation and freedom, and
watching it shrivel and die was painful."
What he said. The firewall was born there as well as the www search engine.
About 8 or so years ago a few of us got calls from the white house - Ira Magazner, Clintons senior science advisor wanted to meet with all players in the domain name mess (to stab us in the back it turns out) and Brian Reid was one of those people. He was director of the NSL at DEC ("decwrl").
The day before I got an email saying he couldn't come and that Compaq had bought Dec and he wasn't sure he'd even have a job. I asked how this could even be possible and his reply stuck in my mind quite firmly: "Compaq didn't get enough money to buy Dec by being innovative".
The Amiga was actually the direct descendent of the Atari 400/800 - it was a 16 bit Motorola 68000 system with graphics a lot of PCs still don't have today. Jay Miner was the genius behind the hardware, Dale Luck and Jim McRazz did the bulk of the OS. I can't remember why it didn't stay in Atari but it didn't. They trie to go it alone for a while then Commodore picked them up.
If you look at comp.sys.amiga in the day complaints about hos Commodore was screwing it up were commonplace.
In fact there was one version of the bootstrap code that is you held down certain keys while it was booting it said something like "We built it, they fucked it up"
The Amiga was so cool it hurt.
"Of course I could go ahead and run the recommended DJB configuring using rsync + openssh to propogate zone files. Then I would avoid the 10 vulnerabilities filed against BIND9 over it's seven year life span, but open myself to the 40 or so against OpenSSH, 30 or so against OpenSSL, and 10 or so against rsync"
Looks good on paper, but in reality how many bugs have *ss* caused in real world name service? Zero.
How many compromised nameservers have there been because of bugs in bind? Non-zero.
"Bind has been around since the dawn of Vint Cerf's IP"
Not quite, try about 10 years later.
Paul Vixie when at decwrl was funded by his boss, Brian Reid to take the Berkley B-Tree code and whip up a name daemon. This cost Dec quite a bit of money. This was in the mid to late 80s or so. Remember that the relevenat RFC for the domain name system only came out in 86.
"So we can expect the next generation of malware to alter systems to use OpenDNS?"
I remenber a fella named Kashpuereff tried this once...